Four defendants in Steve Utash beating set for Circuit Court arraignment Monday

In an undated photo provided by the Utash family, Steven Utash, left, poses with his daughter Felicia. Steven Utash, a motorist beaten by a mob when he stopped to help a Detroit child struck by his pickup truck April 2 is speaking with family members at a hospital, Friday, April 11, 2014 after doctors took him off a ventilator Thursday. (AP Photo/Utash Family Photo)

DETROIT, MI -- Four of five defendants arrested so far for the beating of Steve Utash after he struck a 10-year-old boy with his pickup and was beaten by a mob on April 2, are scheduled to appear in Detroit Monday for their Circuit Court arraignments.

One of the defendants, 17-year-old Bruce E. Wimbush Jr., waived his right to preliminary hearing last week. Three other defendants, 30-year-old Wonzey Saffold, 19-year-old Latrez Cummings and 24-year-old James Davis,chose to proceed and were bound over on charges of assault with intent to murder and assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder.

Police said as many as 12 participated in the attack.

A fifth suspect, who is a juvenile, is being prosecuted in the juvenile court and is additionally charged with ethnic intimidation.

"I'm going to kill him, I'm going to kill him," Deborah Hughes says she heard the defendant Cummings say while a mob pummeled Utash, according to the police report. Hughes, who lives near the Clark gas station where the attack occurred, said she first attended to the injured boy but then approached the mob attacking Utash demanding they stop.

Saffold, according to a statement read at the pretrial hearing last week, saw 10-year-old David Harris lying on the ground with his leg "bent," blood coming from the corner of his mouth and "lost it."

"There were (expletive) on his ass stomping him," Saffold said, according to his statement. "I got mad. I punched the white man in the jaw with my right hand. He was still stumbling and fell ... I think I kicked him once in the chest."

Utash remains hospitalized and "unable to distinguish reality from his delusions," his daughter, Mandi Marie Emerick, wrote last week on a website collecting money for Utash's medical bills.

No further medical updates have been provided.

"I have been putting off posting an update hoping that after the 'next visit,'" she wrote. "I would have some better news. But days are going by and I don't have better news to share."

The Circuit Court arraignment before Judge James Callahan, scheduled to begin at 9 a.m., hadn't commenced by 9:20 a.m.